South Carolina declared its secession from the United States in December 1860, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as President. The state’s delegation to Congress—Representatives Lawrence Keitt, William Boyce, John McQueen, John Ashmore, Milledge Bonham, William Miles, and Senators James Chestnut and James Hammond—is depicted in this print from Harper’s Weekly, originally published in 1861 and reprinted in the 1866 Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War. Harper’s and other illustrated newspapers used sketch artists as correspondents who brought congressional and battlefield images to a wide readership.
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “The Last Delegation from South Carolina in the Congress of the United States,” https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/2007/2007-291-000/ (May 19, 2022)
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